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单词 tabanca
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Definition of tabanca in English:

tabanca

nountaˈbaŋka
mass nounWest Indian
  • A painful feeling of unrequited love, typically for a former lover and causing unbalanced or violent behaviour.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Where capricious behaviour consistent with tabanca is most evident is in his unsupported opinion of what African-Trinidadian children do at school.
    • It has killed its credibility because of its ‘tabanca’ for office and its penchant for mischief.
    • What price is our venerable former Prime Minister prepared to have us pay to assuage the agony of his political tabanca?
    • Most adults are aware of what a man with a serious tabanca can do.

Origin

Probably from Kikongo tabaka 'buy up or sell out completely'.

 
 
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